When I was a kid, Halloween entailed lots of strategizing about a trick-or-treating route, trying to maximize our candy take and houses with over-the-top decorations.   Read More

With the 35th anniversary of the bar code on Friday we couldn’t help but wonder what’s next at the checkout counter?    Read More

I'm just back from vacation in Vietnam, where the story of American media giants' potential growth and challenges was inescapable. I was briefly in Ho Chi Minh City, but mostly along the country's east coast, in the area around Hoi An (just south of the 17th Parallel) and up north in Hanoi.    Read More